There is nothing wrong with your suggestion or any reason for you to feel bad about suggesting it.
I am also working on my own site which imports my bay listings by entering only my user name, I am also working on making my bay listing multi platform compatible.
As a lot of people are now selling across multi channels & are using sites which will allow them to list on multiple sites & track inventory & will end the listings on all sites when inventory reaches zero.
I think it would bring a lot more sellers to eBid if they had such a feature.